Willy W. reviewed on 11/6/2010 + 503 more book reviews

Helpful Score: 3

This book is about a very un-gentle "romance". The "hero" smacks her around and basically rapes her in every love scene in the book. But she likes it and seems to be unable to be turned on without that type of treatment. Is the author describing a BDSM relationship as it may have looked before that type of thing was done by verbal consent? The heroine was such a nincompoop, you almost don't blame the hero for how he treats her. The book is way too long, you can easily skip a couple hundred pages. But despite all my complaints about the book and the story and the characters...they stay with me. I kept the book because there is something about them, about this story, that is compelling.

I've read online in a number of different polls that this is considered one of the best bodice-rippers of all time. It is consistently in the top ten of this type of romance. I'm not a big reader of bodice-rippers, which is why I was researching them, and I think I can see why it is so popular. The book is like a shadow that stays in the back of your mind.

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